"Today we made our most ground-breaking discovery since we arrived here two months ago. After charting the ruins in this area, our team began excavations in earnest, slowly uncovering the remains of an ancient civilization which once thrived here thousands of years ago."

Over the next few days, Brunou recorded in the journal how tests on the artifact had revealed it was made of a substance unknown to Imperial science and that the chamber it had been found in was covered in bas-relief pictographs. The pictographs emitted sounds when pressed, and it was believed that they served as an aural history of the Aaris civilization. Grigor Tansad and Jelok, two scientists on the team, worked on the translation of the pictographs. Despite the discoveries, Brunou noted that the team had started to become paranoid, and believed that they were being watched from the jungle, although there was no indication of sentient life on the planet. Unknown to the team was that the artifact they had discovered housed a sentient lifeform that fed off the life-force of living beings and sought to destroy them by manipulating their emotions to violence. As the team members fell prey to the artifact's influence,[1] they were attacked by the primitive descendants of the native Aaris.[2] The Aaris knew the artifact as the Plaque of Victory, and its influence had caused the downfall of their civilization thousands of years previously.[1]

The team began to suffer casualties due to the Aaris' attacks, and their shuttle was destroyed. Brunou and the last few survivors fortified their position and sent a distress signal to Sarne's capital, Kal'Shebbol, pleading for rescue. While the team had been on the planet, Kal'Shebbol had fallen to the New Republic, and Sarne had fled into the depths of the Kathol sector with the majority of his forces. Brunou, along with the research assistant Solla Deremot, was eventually rescued from the planet by the crew of the New Republic CR90 corvetteFarStar, which had intercepted their call for help. The crew studied the journal with Brunou's permission when they investigated what had transpired on the planet.[1]

Doctor Lancer Brunou's journal appeared in Artifact of Aaris, the second roleplaying game adventure scenario published in The DarkStryder Campaign in 1995. Several entries from the journal are presented in the adventure, which serves as background information on MS-133's discovery of the Plaque of Victory.